Yeah, I’ve long felt his PR game outshines his interestingness and insightfulness. He gets quoted and referenced reverently by media often, but then you read his takes and they’re either eye-rolling hype or stifled-laughter obviousness.
Came here just to same something the same about his perception. Looking at what he did and didn't do with/to bluesky I think he is much on his own version reality.
That makes no sense whatsoever. Elon ruined Twitter for a quick buck but he’s actually lost money on it? Then he obviously hasn't made a quick buck on it.
I expect to see a rise in use of small scale networks/groups, ideally self hosted in some way, where participants are all known to each other in real life. For years now I've been seeing people migrate to WhatsApp groups largely for this reason (I know each of you, this conversation is not public, and we're not going to have some weird bot or 'curator' turn up to shill, steal, or spray slop around).
Really curious to know about any co-housing/living communities or the like that have found a useful solution along the lines of a calendar/notification/chat/messaging/file sharing platform that isn't some mashup of big tech offerings.
Who's offering real life communities a 'social platform in a box'?
Futo Circles[1] may be what you're looking for. I haven't used it so I can't speak to the service itself, but it's a selfhostable e2e encrypted social media app built on top of Matrix.
I would like to setup some messaging solution for me and my friends and family to avoid spying.
My internet conmection and power have some downtime here on the country side, so ideally I would want something that have redundant server nodes. Dunno if that exists.
Personally I loathe it. I have a client that insists I communicate with them using their channel. The UI is overwhelming and finding past references or info is not nearly as easy as it should be. I have no idea why some projects use it as their primary community platform (looking at you Svelte). Slack is not much better in many regards.
Be careful about "doing too much of that" as it can make stressed friendships untolerable (soooo annoying, no I don't want to hear more about where you `went`).
I already don't know what's real anymore when reading historical snippets accompanied by pictures. Especially Facebook content, it's worse than the bottom of the barrel paper printed tabloids of the 90s, with the hen that gave birth to live chicks and all.
Eventually I'll have no option but to re-subscribe to paid content, while there's a trace of quality and objectiveness left.
The next planned step from caring governments and big tech: mandatory online identification.
Sow disinformation to drive crowds, zero in and silence dissidents. 1984 is served.
I just wish that Zuck, Thiel, Sergei, Elon, Jack and all the richest-beyond-any-practical-sense are remembered in history as the ones that did most of the work for this to happen.
Hell, I am no Stallman fan, but I would take his view over the crowd any day.
Proof of work to post content. This is the part where some one says cell phone batteries can't handle it. But I doubt much quality content has ever been directly posted from a mobile device in the first place so I don't think it is much of a problem.
Jack would know. He helped knock away the few remaining safeguards we had left.
Whereas Square used AI to prevent fraud, Twitter used AI to create an algorithmic hate machine. Any remaining authentic sigmal is overwhelmed by the noise of bots, trolls, agitprop, memes, and socketpuppets.
Before the eternal September in the 90s, you knew most netizens were academics and respecting the netiquette. It was a very different time that I seriously miss
Humanity didn't write something that I am choosing to read in a certain way. When I look at Nazi Germany, Trump voters, anti-vaxxers, flat earthers. It's just plain to see.
Pointing that out and being called a smart-@ss is just crab bucketing on your part.
We already live in alternate realities depending on what media we consume. Which is determined by our political group. Which is largely determined by location or socio-economic status, etc.
I mean literally having wildly varying beliefs about what is true or not. Especially political beliefs, each group believes that the other groups or their leaders are incompetent and corrupt. This goes for splits inside of a country but also in regards to other countries.
Technology is an amplifier. But it shouldn't be blamed for problems that humans create due to the nature of humanity and the poor organization of society and poor integration of information.
